Kids. They’re so about now, now and now, and rarely consider the future.

In the case of Castro Valley’s boys basketball team, that’s probably a very good thing as it showed during a surprisingly lopsided 52-34 North Coast Section Division I quarterfinal win at fifth-seed Heritage-Brentwood Friday night.

The Trojans (23-5), blessed with three of the top juniors in the East Bay, never trailed after taking a 5-4 lead on the first of three consecutive 3-pointers by rangy 6-foot-6 swingman Juan Anderson, who finished with a game-high 19 points.

Castro Valley held and 8-10 point-lead most of the game, then put it away with a 13-0 run midway through the fourth quarter keyed by the team’s other two standout juniors Chris Read, a 6-4 leaper who collected 16 points and 11 rebounds, and point guard Roderick Bobbitt, a 6-2 point guard who added 13 points and seven assists.

The three 11th-graders accounted for all but four of their team’s points (92 percent).

The talented trio isn’t thinking about next year however, when they should REALLY be a power. With Friday’s win, they earned the basketball program’s first entrance into the state tournament.

This is the first year the NCS will send four teams to the CIF State Regionals starting in 10 days. Castro Valley will play the winner of Saturday’s Antioch at top-seed Newark Memorial game on Wednesday.

“Our next year is right now,” Anderson said. “We’re going after it this year, not waiting to next year.”

Read, who added six steals, knifed in for a couple of them to start the run, finishing off the second one with an emphatic dunk that signaled the end of Heritage (22-6), which finished a superlative season on a sour note.

Castro Valley’s final bucket came on a spectacular fastbreak windmill dunk by Anderson after a nice feed from Bobbitt.

The Patriots simply couldn’t do much right, including a paltry 13 of 51 night from the field to go along with 22 turnovers.

Heritage’s strength all season has been taking care of the ball, but everything was a struggle on this night.

Much of the credit should go with the very quick Trojans, who defended the passing lanes beautifully and contested all shots.

Heritage missed all 12 of its 3-point attempts and when the Patriots got out on the break, the length and leaping ability of Read and Anderson, in particularly, made life rough.

“They make a coach look good,” Castro Valley coach Nick Jones said of Castro Valley’s athleticsm. “The thing is we still haven’t put a full game together yet. We put it on late in this one but we’re going to need to do that for a full 32 minutes from here on out.”

Said Bobbitt, who was voted the Hayward Area Athletic League’s MVP: “We need to be more consistent for sure, but we did a good job tonight finishing them off.”

Bobbitt and Anderson made it clear the Trojans very much want a rematch with top seed Newark Memorial, which defeated Castro Valley 52-51 in both teams’ season opener.

Other than losses to state Division III power Bishop O’Dowd in league play, Castro Valley hasn’t lost a game since Dec. 12.

“I want (Newark Memorial),” Bobbitt said.

Said Anderson: “We both had the jitters that first game, but they got the win and we want to pay them back for it.”

Ofodu Meniru, a 6-3 senior, was very active for Heritage and led the Patriots with nine points and seven rebounds.

Heritage coach Pat Cruickshank had his team over-achieve all season en route to an undisputed Bay Valley Athletic League crown.

The Patriots just ran into a faster, quicker and more vertical squad on Friday night.

FRIDAY NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS: In other Division I quarterfinal games, No. 2 seed De La Salle defeated Washington-Fremont 66-47 behind 22 points by John McArthur and 15 from Amadi Udenyi…Tad Fisher had 20 points and Chris McNealy 19 as San Ramon Valley escaped with a 59-56 win over James Logan at Monte Vista…Brittany Boyd scored 23 of her game-high 25 points as top-seed Berkeley (24-3) rolled to a 65-29 win over visiting Washington-Fremont. The very bad news for Berkeley is that star 6-foot-1 junior Charise Culberson didn’t play after tearing her ACL on Wednesday at practice. She’s out for the season. See more on this game tomorrow from correspondent Harold Abend…A couple of barn-burners in Division III girls, where host Campolindo edged Drake 74-69 and visiting Miramonte, the third seed, edged No. 6 Analy 55-52.